Personal Experience--Astor Place** High Noon 7/30/25

While crossing LaFayette St just past the moving sculpture N of the Public Theater- A man with grey hair-tee shirt-jeans just ahead of me. A man on a e-bike was running at the usual race time uptown. As the delivery agent approached he rang the bike bell. Immediately the man ahead of me turned-croached-and growled with a visceral antipathy that was as much menace as frustration. Right from the gut. 25 years of being victims in our own skin and streets. "This all started with Bloomberg." The bike had passed behind us. "You got that right." One gray head to another. While I'm at it-It was Bloomberg who responded to the irrational armtwisting of Charles Komanoff to withhold enforcement by the NYPD on rogue cyclists. Money Mike wanted to attract the digital industry. Mission accomplished. Great swaths of the westside were bought and developed by the teck oligarhs. Gorgo enforcement-the backbone of a responsible bike culture-to accommodate the preference of tech employees to cycle. Yes it did begin with the zealotry of TA and the complicity of Bloomberg As Jeenaette Sadik Khan said at the Rudin Center "It's good for real estate. How much of the west side might Bloomberg enterprises have owned? Bloomberg said he wanted to increase the density of the city to 12 illion residents. Want NYC to be a "luxury destination." Does that include the savaging of the quality of public safety and quality of life? When your self worth is focussed of making money and feeling important by giving it-stratically away-some thing are simply collateral damage.

WPIX** Senior Citizen cyclist Hit & Run driver 21

2nd Ave & 15th St. Lower East Side hit and run. 65 year old e-bike cyclist hit. Suffered traumatic head injury. Driver-21- caught in Brooklyn 2 hours later. Was cyclist wearing a helmet? Who was doing what when the encounter occurred? Not informative. At least it will be an accurate statistic involving an e-bike. https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/hit-run-leaves-bicyclist-critical-131730149.html

Zealot vs Zealot Youtube:Frieda Vizel(Bedford Ave Bike Lane Battle)

Cyclist Frieda Vizel has done a commendable job with a video presentation about the Hassidic uprising against the protected bike lane along Beford Aveneue.Succinctly:There was never an environmental impact study conducted for Vision Zero. Enforcement was actively opposed and imposed from the beginning. This undermined the NYPD. Enforcement is the backbone of a responsible bike culture. The arrogance of the founders of Transportation Alternatives subsequently transmitted to the members of TA and adopted by digital commerce has devasated public safety and blugeoned the quality of city life. Possible solution? Send Charles Komanoff and Mark Gorton-TA prinipals- for a Bar mitzvah refresher course and invite the Grand Rebbe to exit the Mitzvah tank and go for a cycling swarm on a midsummer night.********************https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd-tp9GrQyE

Brownstoner**Judge Approves dismantling of protected Bedford Ave bike lane

The Hasidim in Brooklyn succesfully took on Transportation Alternatives in court and prevailed. The usual subtrefuge, misinformation, inaccurate citation of statistics were of no avail against at least 12 incidents reliably reported of children being hit by cyclists. Whoops TA-looks like you're hoist on your own petard. Zealotry first and foremost. Zealotry above all. Screw public safety and common sense. Screw the advice of internationally recognized authorities. Charles Komanoff "the sophist" knows best. Mark Gorton-hedge fund operator-developer of Lime Wire-= music theft software-supporter of Robert "The Doc" Kennedy knows best. ZEALOTRY UBER ALLES*****************https://www.brownstoner.com/brooklyn-life/bedford-avenue-protected-bike-lane-bed-stuy-judge-decision/

Cyclists Frustrated by NYPD Crackdown on Rogue Riding ABC

https://mail.yahoo.com/n/folders/folders=1&listFilter=PRIORITY/messages/ACzk1P5H4iWoSFU13hOMLxdZVEw/ACzk1P5H4iWoSFU13hOMLxdZVEw:2?. NYPD Commissioner Tisch began enforcing the law firmly against rogue riding in April. Charlie Baker with Transportation Alternatives is quoted as belly aching about this advocacy of public safety. Deferring as usual to the cars and trucks defection. The issu in NYC is and always has been since 2000 that the cycling and microtransport community has been allowed to run wild. Due to the undue influence of the same Transportation Alternatives and the complicity of the mayoral administraations since 2000. Thus the NYPD has been undermined. The quality of public safety bludgeoned. So too the quyality of life. No amount of infrastructure can create public safety with a responsible cycling culture. Enforcement is the backbone of same. Transportation Alternatives leading the charge of zealotry is now hoist on its own petard. Unfortunately it has taken the public along for the unseemly ride. Causing needless deaths. Accidents. Unnumbered close calls. Its been irrational since TA mounted the podium We've all paid the price. Expert John Pucher told TA NOT TO DO IT-thwarting enforcment. TA knew better. The city paid the price. Thank you Commissioner Tisch.

Personal encounter Jack Brown

On Saturday walking back from the West Village I was crossing Seventh Ave-Headed Eastt. The light was with me. Approaching the east side at the bike lane there was a female cyclist-Citibike-stopped for the redlight. She engrossed in her cell phone. Left foot on the curb. Suddenly a male Citibike rider came at a potentially damageing clip. He was looking to his left with no apparent intention of stopping for the light. I saw him. He was close enough to have collided if I hadn't yelled "Hey!" He appeared impervious to his dangerous behavior. Merely glanced at me as if I was a fleeting curiosity and wheeled indifferently through the red light. Take nothing for granted as a pedestrian in The Big Apple. The life you save may be your own.

NYPost 11th St Betw 1st & A-bike squatter's rights

What was a discreet overnight spot-not far from a mosque-for 4 or 5 delivery bikes has expanded to about 50. An overnight guard included. The East Village is a ripe location for delivery work. Years of making it attractive for bridge & tunnel weekenders and a 24 hour frolic for residents has created a quality of life dilemma.Delivery agents and alcohol dispensaries. Ah the good life???********************************************https://nypost.com/2025/07/21/us-news/nyc-block-taken-over-by-migrant-workers-for-delivery-bike-parking-as-guard-keeps-overnight-watc